"The US Justice Department unsealed an indictment in Minneapolis Monday against two young Somali-Americans in what is the latest in a long line of charges charging defendants with the "material support" for terrorism. This case bears particular scrutiny in that it is the first major terror related prosecution initiated under the Obama administration. The frame-up of these young Somai-Americans is an indication that the Obama administration, like its predecessor, is seeking to terrorize the American people with manufactured terror threats in order to suppress opposition to policies of aggressive war abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home."

"The local Daily Trust newspaper quoted Ustaz Mohamad Yusuf, who is purportedly the leader of the group, as saying his followers were ready to die to insure the institution of a strict Islamic society.."

On January 16, Media Trust Ltd was arraigned before the High Court in the capital of Abuja, accused of 3 counts of terrorism. The director, a Muslim cleric by the name of Mohammad Bello Llyas Damagun, who was described by prosecutors as belonging to a group dubbed the "Nigerian Taliban" was charged with receiving funds from al-Qaeda, sending recruits abroad for training, and aiding terrorist activities within Nigeria.."

Hmmm, now I am starting to realize why Harpo cut African aide, in his right winged mind.

Harpo's redirecting Canadian "aid" to Latin America and the Carribean where Canadian business interests will benefit in Haiti, where Canadian mining companies will benefit in Ecuador and Honduras and where the U.S.A. and Canada will extend their military and economic power in Colombia.

"There are 3 dimensions to this visit: AGOA, oil and natural resource exploitation, and security. And in each case it is the US corporate interests, not the interests of Africans that are being pushed..?

"There is apparently no path blazed by George W Bush that Barack Obama will not eagerly follow. We can add an increasingly direct involvment in the horrific, hydra-headed conflict in Somalia. Clinton has pledged to double the recently announced supply of American weapons to Somalia's 'transitional government' - - a weak reed cobbled together by Western interests from various CIA warlords.."

"Rwandans living in Canada say they're shocked by the federal government's decision to resume deporting people to their troubled homeland. They say Rwanda is still a dangerous country and the government is a threat to the people"

"It is hardly a coincidence that just as Clinton begins her junket, so AFRICOM announces its MEDFLAG initiative in Swaziland. As Thomas Friedman has put it: 'The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. Macdonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas..And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.."

"Rwandans living in Canada say they're shocked by the federal government's decision to resume deporting people to their troubled homeland. They say Rwanda is still a dangerous country and the government is a threat to the people"

Ladies and gentlemen, this is yet another indication of why we need to do all we can to seriously oppose our(?) Conservafascist government.

"Rwandans living in Canada say they're shocked by the federal government's decision to resume deporting people to their troubled homeland. They say Rwanda is still a dangerous country and the government is a threat to the people"

Ladies and gentlemen, this is yet another indication of why we need to do all we can to seriously oppose our(?) Conservafascist government.

"Rwandans living in Canada say they're shocked by the federal government's decision to resume deporting people to their troubled homeland. They say Rwanda is still a dangerous country and the government is a threat to the people"

Ladies and gentlemen, this is yet another indication of why we need to do all we can to seriously oppose our(?) Conservafascist government.

"A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world. with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs.."

"This is not getting much coverage - Displaced Somalis fleeing in thousands..Somalis are our Muslim brothers and sisters too, and they should not be forgotten. THey have no support from the international community and this innocent people need our help.

It is overwhelming. Where does one start? Iraq refugees, Palestinians, Afghans, Pakistanis, Somalis..

"America's AFrica Command is machinery for Western governments to pursue their vested political and hegemonic hemispheric influence at the expense of Africa as well as a backdoor through which Westerners can outmaneover rivals such as China...

"African revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly equipped US army that will be permanently resident in Africa to oversee the country's imperialist interests.."

"The truth is not one sided. It is a reality made up of many aspects. One must note that the truth about the tragic events of 1994 in Rwanda is especially difficult to get the mind around, here, nearly 16 years after they happened. And while the attack of 6 April 1994 has been universally recognized as the spark that set off the genocide, the United Nations, which was assigned to help Rwandans in the difficult search for peace, has never found it worthwhile to conduct an international investigation of this attack.

After which the entire region of the African Great Lakes was turned into an enormous battlefield, where the victims are numbered in the millions."

"Angry South Africans rioted this week in protest at the conditions in which they are forced to live. Coming at the same time as the ANC establishment's celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from jail, the uprising exposed the hypocrisy behind the 'new' South Africa.."

"In yet another odd coincidence, Alan Greyson led a US Congressional delegation that just happened to be in Niger at the time of the recent coup last Thursday that deposed the legitimate elected government of the uranium-rich nation.."

"East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda's Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war torn Somalia.."

"In between South Asia and Africa lies Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. The New York Times report cited earlier reminded readers that 'the US is increasingly concerned about the link between Somalia and Yemen.'

Washington (along with its NATO allies) is forging an expanded war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and into Africa."

"The distinction between the Pentagon and NATO in relation to Europe and Africa - and increasingly the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea Basin, Central Asia, South Asia and the Indian Ocean - is blurred and more and more of a strictly formal nature.

NATO has now joined AFRICOM's first war, in Somalia

In 1884 the major European powers gathered at the Berlin Conference to divide up those parts of Africa that had escaped colonization and to create a consortium to dominate and exploit an entire continent and its peoples...126 years later there are ominous indications that the former colonial masters are nostaligic for their past power.."

"Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, 'bunker-buster' bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean..."

"The eastern Congo remains awash in bloodshed due to western mining companies [Canadian too of course!] and their proxy armies, the military regimes of Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Joseph Kabila (DRC), all hidden behind reams of western newsprint blaming Congolese victims for their own suffering.

Across the continent a new rebellion in western Congo has reportedly engaged Belgian paratroopers and UN 'peacekeepers', in alliance with the DRC government. With massive casualties and more than 200,000 civilians forced to flee western Congo the UN and western media have covered up the new rebellion.

Meanwhile AFRICOM under the Obama administration has major base constructions and secret deployments across Central Africa, with NATO, Dyncorp and Special Operations Command shipping Ugandan grunts to the US wars in Somalia, Afghanistan, Darfur and Iraq.."

'Canada is the largest non-African investor in the mining sector in the DRC': Canada-DRC Fact Sheet, Government of Canada. More blood spilled with your tax dollars and apparently supported by our 'representatives'...

"Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia may have been the most misrepresented series of major evnts over the past twenty years. But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies and civil wars that have ravaged several counries in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa over the same years may have been subjected to even greater misrepresentation...

To a remarkable degree, all major sections of the Western establishment swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside down...What the United States and its Western allies, Britain, Canada and Belgium really did was to sponsor his [President Paul Kagame's] invasion of Rwanda from Uganda and the massive ethnic cleansing prior to April 1994; weaken the Rwandan state by forcing an economic recession and the RPF's penetration of the government and throughout the country and then press for the complete removal of UN troops...

Very big lies about Rwanda are now institutionalized and are part of the common (mis)understanding in the West. In reality, Rwanda's Paul Kagame is one of the great mass murderers of our time, far surpassing Uganda's former dicator Idi Amin. Kagame imposed a Tutsi-dominated dictatorship and [turned] the whole of Central Africa into a rolling genocide that is ongoing. But it is true that he is shining 'star' in the Western firmament and its propaganda system.."

Canada the truth is very different than you have been led to believe. 'Shake hands with the Devil' indeed. 'Peackeepers' indeed.

"Peter Erlinder has never denied the fact that mass atrocity crimes and even genocide were committed in Rwanda, much less that a large number of Tutsi were slaughtered. But he has shown with carefully gathered documentary evidence that an even larger number of Hutu were also slaughtered there, and that Kagame and even the RPF were the initiators and main perpetrators of these mass killings. This ultimately is what the charge of 'denying the genocide' really means. Like a growing body of researchers, Erlinder rejects the version of the 'Rwandan genocide' long since institutionalized within [Canadian], US, Western and RPF establishment circles.."

big story underappreciated for obvious reasons of Canadian complicity:

Erlinder's exposure of Paul Kagame's crimes along with those of his western accomplices helps explain why Erlinder might now want to exit from Kagame's clutches in the only way possible. Romeo Dallaire and Louise Arbour have done big favours for Kagame, do you think they might help? Probably not...This is real news folks guaranteed not to run on CBC.

"The State Department on Thursday called on the Rwandan government to release a jailed US law professor. Peter Erlinder has been in custody since Friday on charges he denied the central African country's 1994 genocide.."

"This is a new phase which we are witnessing, with governments collaborating in the arrest, detention and assassination of these lawyers who simply reveal the truth available in documentary and other records in defense of their clients...

The real reason for the arrest and detention is that Professor Peter Erlinder has written and spoken of overwhelming evidence from UN records produced before the Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal that it is the RPF (the present government of Rwanda) that started the war which resulted in the deaths of Tutsis and Hutus and the killings in the Congo...

As I write, it has been reported that bail was denied by the Court in Rwanda on 7th June despite the Counsel for Professor Peter Erlinder submitting to the Court in Rwanda that Professor Erlinder was in urgent need of medical treatment for which he desired to return to United States..

It is necessary to maintain a daily vigil for Professor Peter Erlinder's release, even while contrasting what he faces to the impunity granted to those who invade and attack countries, bomb civilian populations and continue the illegal blockade of Gaza who never face a single Security Council constituted Tribunal.."

"As the June-July 2010 World Cup draws the world's attention to South Africa, the country's poor and working class people will continue protesting, at what is now among the highest rates per person in the world. Since 2005, the police have conservatively measured an annual average of more than eight thousand 'Gatherings Act' incidents (public demonstrations legally defined as involving upwards of fifteen demonstrators) by an angry urban populace, which reamins unintimidated by the year old government of Jacob Zuma.

The general urban uprising has included resistance to the commodification of life - eg. commercialization of municipal services - and to rising poverty and inequitality in the country's slums..'

"The 15th biennial African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda ended on July 27 with mixed results regarding support for US and Western European plans to escalate to escalate foreign intervention in nearby Somalia.."